Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: the Imperial Tribune (the Sultan's Box)
Artist/Photographer | Neue Photographische Gesellschaft |
Country | Turkey |
City | Istanbul |
Subject Date | 1619 |
Image Date | 1905 |
View | Interior |
Style | Islamic |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | 7540 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Interior decoration ; Mosques ; Church fittings ; Balconies ; Churches ; Columns |
NOTES: The Church of the Holy Wisdom, known as Hagia Sophia in Greek, Sancta Sophia in Latin, and Ayasofya or Aya Sofya in Turkish, was a Byzantine church until 1453 when Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror made it his imperial mosque. In 1934 the mosque was secularized and turned into the Ayasofya Museum.
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